Carriage-bow socket



(No Model.) C. S. RATHBUN 8u S. F. SELBY.

CARRIAGE BW SOCKET.

I .N VEN T0155 Patented Aug. 14, 188B.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. i

CHARLES S. RATHBUN AND STEPHEN F, SELBY, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

CARRIAGE-Bow SOCKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 283,022, dated August 14, 1883.

` Appiiaail mea Maren io, 1883. (No model.)

T all whom it may con/cern:

Be it known that we, CHARLEs S. RATHBUN l .and STEPHEN F. SELBY, both of Cleveland, in

side elevation.

tion, showing a wooden lling.

the county nof Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and useful Carriage-Bow Socket, of which the following is a specification.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a Fig. 2 is a longitudinal secy Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section, showing a filling having a socket made of same material and in one piece, all composed of paper or compressed.`

end to end and oval in cross-section.

struct ofpaper-pulp or a brous material capable of being compressed into form with suitable `dies upon acentral rod provided with a core for forming the socket.

C is a Slat-iron, provided with an internal screw-thread for securing it to the central rod,

B, consisting of a long bolt having a head, b. This bolt serves to unite and. bind the filling A to the said slat-iron by being put through the filling from the socket end, and, having a screw-thread on lower end, is screwed into the said Slat-iron. This bolt also serves to strengthen as well as securelybind the parts together.

In Fig. 2 a metal socket, D, is attached to upper end of filling A by means of screws d, for attaching the saine to the top bow: Metal ferrules are placed on the lower ends of the filling and on thetop end ofthe socket for protection.

These bow-sockets may be covered with leather in the usual manner, or may/be coated with japan or suitable material to give the outside a finished and neat appearance.

Having described our invention, we claim l l. The lling A, having central opening throughout its length, the central rod, B, the Slat-iron C, and the socket D, in combination, substantially as specified.

2. VIn combination with a Slat-iron provided with a central screw-eye, a bow-Slat cored out its entire length, and a screw-rod extending through the core of the bow-Slat and into the screw-eye of the Slat-iron, substantially as described.

3. A bow-Slat having its center cored out i its entire length, in combination with a screwrod extending entirely through the bow-slat and adapted to be secured in the Slat-iron, substantially as described. CHARLES S. RATHBUN.

STEPHEN F. SELBY.

Vitnesses: w l GEO. W. TIBBI'rTs, f M. G. NORTON. 

